Described by writer Nick Spencer as "Runaways meets Lost," the series focuses on six "brilliant but troubled" new recruits at Morning Glory Academy, a prestigious prep school hiding "sinister and deadly" secrets.

[5] Critical success is abundant as well, with IGN calling the first issue "one of the most engrossing...in recent memory" and noting that Spencer is "determined to make the rest of the comic book world stand up and take notice.

The main action focuses on six students from diverse backgrounds as they enter Morning Glory Academy, try to survive and fight back against the ruthless faculty.

Made up of Irina, Guillaume, Vanessa, Ian, Fortunato and Akiko, they are a diverse group of children loyal to Abraham, a man with a connection to the Academy and each of the Glories.

Six students, Casey, Zoe, Jade, Jun, Hunter and Ike are granted entrance into the prestigious boarding school Morning Glory Academy.

While Casey and Zoe were running from the faculty, Jun had infiltrated Daramount’s thugs, took the “unconscious” Hunter to the infirmary and the two of them sprung Jade free.

He finds a young Zoe and she greets Abraham as an old friend and hints that she knew he was coming, implying some sort of psychic ability.

Back in the present, Zoe heads to the midnight initiation ceremony for the squad, where through a series of questions she has to answer truthfully, she confesses that she killed the teacher and destroyed the body.

While the boys are getting ready, their mother mentions to Daramount that Hisao and Jun were born 30 minutes apart unlike what their birth certificates report.

Irina explains that they must make it to a tower on the Academy grounds to enact their plan, with Guillaume mentioning that they caused the students and faculty to be separated by changing their position in time.

At one point, young Ike dreams about Abraham rescuing Hisao from the fire and burns down his bedroom in the hope it would make his father come home.

Casey dyes her hair black and dresses like Daramount, getting a job as "Ms. Clarkson", a physics teacher so that she can teach the younger version of herself and encourage her to apply to Morning Glory Academy in the first place.

While the other Truants sit in cells, Irina wakes up in a small house and is greeted by Mr N, a member of the faculty who doesn't spent a lot of time at the Academy.

He encourages her to relive her past in the Ukraine with her abusive mother who once paid for armed men to rape and kill her, challenging young Irina to murder them before they could.

She explains that the shrine is similar to the cave and the tower and will enable them to travel back to the night before Vanessa's boyfriend Brendan was killed during the Truants plan to rescue Abraham.

He later finds Hisao in the gym and attempts to apologize for what happened at the tower, telling him he would never allowed Irina to go through with her plan if he knew her sacrifice was Jun.

In the present, Daramount enters Fortunato's cell and complains about how Hodge's releasing of the Truants undermines her authority and makes her look weak to the students and faculty.

Still in a coma after offering herself as the sacrifice, Akiko dreams of being collected by Clarkson and taken to Abraham's camp, talking older Jade, questioning Ian about why he hasn't visited her and watching her own father's suicide.

The Academy announces that two popular extra-curricular events: towerball and the science fair, are to be reinstated following their postponing after the Truant's attempted coup.

Miss Dagney introduced Vanessa's mother and Ian's father as guest teachers to help the students with their projects for the science fair.

He states that, before he takes a sabbatical from the Academy to pursue Abraham, he has decided to make Guillaume captain of the blue towerball team as punishment for his actions aiding Irina.

She believes Hodge has kidnapped Jade so that Casey will be forced to run against Isabel and gain an audience with the Headmaster so that she can ask him her location.

Ian's father invites the students to submit their ideas for the science fair and Vanessa announces that she is working on something that will disrupt the electromagnetic field around the Academy and allow them contact with the outside world.

Jade tells Guillaume that she is no longer suicidal, as her desire to live during the many attempts on her life mean she mustn't really want to die.

She then asks why Jun didn't choose a guard as a sacrifice but Guillaume responds that there are specific parameters, namely, the fact that she has already brought someone back from the dead.

Jade admits that she did revive her mother and Guillaume begs her to resurrect Hisao but she says that she can't because the person who is brought back is never the same.

Ian congratulates Ike for making everyone think Isabel is responsible but mentions that it will not affect the outcome of the election, as his science fair project will ensure Casey's victory.

Isabel gives long, diplomatic, Academy-appeasing answers to each of the questions whereas Casey simply says that she doesn't care about menial things such as locker assignments or the upgrading of gym equipment and only wants to destroy the Academy and be free.

Counting the ballots, Daramount is furious that Casey has won in a landslide and blames Hodge for putting their father in danger by allowing her to meet with him.

As the clock hits 8:13, Guillaume instructs Jun to enact their plan and he quickly scores enough goals for the blue team to win for the first time, proving the Headmaster's rules are not unbreakable.